The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?
I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in sh...
'One Tree Hill' will always be very, very special to me. It was my first television show. And my first gig in the business. It was surreal. I booked the role when I was 13. I had just started high school, and literally, I think, a week into high scho...
Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.
I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.
Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
